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Our History

 
Hope International Church is a young church, planted in 2023.
Here is a bit of our story.
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In February 2023, gathered with several people in the living room of a Brussels apartment, Julian Bacon and Daniel Brink held a series of informational sessions in which they presented the vision for an international church in Brussels that would follow the reformed protestant tradition. They introduced the values and theological distinctives for this new church-planting project and led the group in prayer for God's wisdom and blessing. Participation in these meetings revealed significant interest in the project; about this same time, Hope was approved as an official church plant of the International Presbyterian Church denomination (IPC).

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Hope International Church of Brussels held its first worship service on 5 March 2023 at Le Petit Chapeau Rond Rouge and has been gathering on Sundays ever since. Because of the establishment of weekly Sunday services and the presence of a core group of people committed to the church plant, in June 2023 the IPC changed Hope's status from church plant to mission church. As a mission church, Hope still receives oversight from the IPC but can receive members and administer the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

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We celebrated the Lord’s Supper for the first time on the 11 June 2023 and had our first baptism on 16 July 2023. The church has steadily grown in membership; after almost two years of meeting at Le Petit Chapeau Rond Rouge, in January 2025 Hope moved its Sunday morning gathering to Église Protestant Evangélique de Bruxelles-Woluwe. 

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